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This is the new permanent home of the cf-plot documentation: please consult this and not the old frozen version under 'http://ajheaps.github.io'.

cf-plot 3.4.0 documentation

  • Introduction
  • Installation
  • Plots by type/theme
  • Gallery of examples
  • User guide
    • Advanced use
    • API reference
    • Versions
    • Support and contributing
    • Training material
    • License
  • Introduction
  • Installation
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  • Gallery of examples
  • User guide
  • Advanced use
  • API reference
  • Versions
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  • Training material
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  • Example 1: Basic contour plot in default projection
  • Example 2: Basic blockfill plot in default projection
  • Example 3: Contour plot with altered map limits and levels
  • Example 4: North Pole polar stereographic projection contour plot
  • Example 5: South Pole polar projection contour plot with bounding latitude
  • Example 6: Latitude-pressure plot at set longitude
  • Example 7: Latitude-pressure plot over zonal mean
  • Example 8: Latitude against log of pressure over longitude zonal mean
  • Example 9: Longitude-pressure plot over latitude mean
  • Example 10: Latitude-time Hovmöller plot
  • Example 11: Latitude-time subset view Hovmöller plot
  • Example 12: Longitude-time Hovmöller plot
  • Example 13: Basic vector plot
  • Example 14: Vector plot overlaid on a contour map
  • Example 15: Polar projection vector plot
  • Example 16a: Zonal vector plot
  • Example 16b: Basic stream plot
  • Example 16c: Stream plot in a colour scale
  • Example 17: Basic stipple plot
  • Example 18: Polar stipple plot
  • Example 19a: Multiple plots
  • Example 19b: Multiple plots with user-specified plot positions
  • Example 19c: Accomodating more than one colour bar
  • Example 20: Case where user-defined axis labels are required
  • Example 21a: User-defined axes
  • Example 21b: Plot of rotated pole data
  • Example 22: Plot of rotated pole data on its native grid
  • Example 23a: Rotated pole plot from data which is not CF Compliant
  • Example 23b: Overlaying vectors over a rotated pole data plot
  • Example 24a: UGRID blockfill plot with LFRic cubed sphere mesh output
  • Example 24b: UGRID plot in the polar stereographic projection view
  • Example 25: UGRID contour plot with ORCA 2 output
  • Example 26a: Contour plot based on discrete feature values
  • Example 26b: Contour plot from discrete feature values with labelling
  • Example 27: Basic line plot
  • Example 28: Line plot with a legend
  • Example 29: Time series line plot
  • Example 30: Line plot with two x axes
  • Example 31: UKCP projection
  • Example 32: UKCP projection with blockfill
  • Example 33: OSGB and EuroPP projections
  • Example 34: Cropping the Lambert Conformal Conic (LCC) projection
  • Example 35: Mollweide projection
  • Example 36: Mercator projection
  • Example 37: Orthographic projection
  • Example 38: Robinson projection
  • Example 39: Basic track plotting
  • Example 39b: plotting a single (1D) DSG trajectory
  • Example 40: Tracks in the polar stereographic projection
  • Example 41: Feature propagation over Europe
  • Example 42a: Tracks with labelled data points
  • Example 42b: Tracks displayed in a colour scale
  • Example 43: CF-compliant WRF model output data
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Example 13: Basic vector plot#

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